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Thanks!<br />
Everything I was reading was saying to check the length...<br />
<a href="http://www.kavoir.com/2009/04/jquery-how-to-test-or-check-whether-an-element-exists.html" rel="ugc">http://www.kavoir.com/2009<wbr />/04/jquery<wbr />-how-to-te<wbr />st-or-chec<wbr />k-whether-<wbr />an-element<wbr />-exists.ht<wbr />ml</a><br />
if ($(&quot;#some&quot;).length)<br />
<a href="http://jqueryfordesigners.com/element-exists/" rel="ugc">http://jqueryfordesigners.<wbr />com/elemen<wbr />t-exists/</a><br />
$('element').length == 0;<br />
And that errored.<br />
Thanks again! Yours works!<br />
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Thanks!
Everything I was reading was saying to check the length...
http://www.kavoir.com/2009/04/jquery-how-to-test-or-check-whether-an-element-exists.html [http://www.kavoir.com/2009/04/jquery-how-to-test-or-check-whether-an-element-exists.html]
if ($("#some").length)
http://jqueryfordesigners.com/element-exists/ [http://jqueryfordesigners.com/element-exists/]
$('element').length == 0;
And that errored.
Thanks again! Yours works!
 
 


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I have this code...<br />
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&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; var portfolio_item = $$('.portfolio_item');<br />
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Following is a bunch of stuff manipulating items within this &nbsp;item, but if the item is not defined on the page, I want it to skip that stuff.<br />
How can I do an if statement that makes sure this item is even on the page first?<br />

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I have this code...

        var portfolio_item = $$('.portfolio_item');

Following is a bunch of stuff manipulating items within this  item, but if the item is not defined on the page, I want it to skip that stuff.
How can I do an if statement that makes sure this item is even on the page first?


Check if an element is defined

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